UK black professional representation 'has barely budged since 2014'

1.5% of top positions are held by black people, a 0.1 percentage-point increase in eight years, survey finds

UK employers have been told to take “urgent action” to support workers from ethnic minorities, after a survey found the number of black professionals in leadership roles has barely moved since 2014.

Business in the Community, the group founded by the Prince of Wales to support responsible business, said black people held just 1.5% of the 3.7m leadership positions across the UK’s public and private sectors in 2019, compared with 1.4% in 2014.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2NhmHif

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